7.6: Facilities
Provide secure, safe, and functional facilities at domestic and overseas posts. Other Information:
The Department and USAID goal is to provide secure, safe, and functional facilities at domestic and overseas posts. Domestically,
the Department employs a long-range asset management plan to guide and improve its use of real estate. A master plan to modernize
the Foggy Bottom campus in Washington, D.C., currently in progress, incorporates: a multi-phased renovation of the aging Harry
S Truman building; co-location of bureaus; and relocation of organizations requiring proximity to headquarters. Construction
of a new building for the U.S. Mission to the UN will consolidate several New York offices, reducing lease and security costs.
This will be the Department’s first domestic building designed according to Interagency Security Criteria. Other projects
will similarly incorporate office consolidation, modernization, security improvements, energy conservation, and environmental
stewardship. Overseas, we are engaged in the most comprehensive overseas capital construction program in the history of the
Department to replace 195 security-deficient embassies and consulates and co-locate all U.S. Government personnel. In the
past five years, 54 embassies and consulates have been replaced or are under construction. As of the end of November 2006,
we have relocated 11,189 personnel. The Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 – 2012 Long-Range Overseas Building Plan projects replacing
another 61 embassies and consulates. The Department is a leader in the Federal Government-wide Real Property Initiative by
incorporating best practices such as “lean” management, ensuring that new facilities are “green” with energy-efficient designs,
encouraging innovative design/build contracts, partnering with industry, and maintaining transparency with stakeholders. USAID
is a partner in this effort, as the Department includes USAID in new offices on all new embassy compounds.
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